#kingdon anime

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

i really love the callback to piao and xin that kingdom does here with ji aga and kan saro. despite his friend ("friend" bc hara just loves making every comrade-in-arms/best friend relationship in kingdom extremely sus, these two swore they were one body and soul while commemorating their union with a drink of blood) being dead, kan saro considers ji aga's soul to now be with him - and that together they are going to save shi ba shou. it's similar to piao asking xin to "take me with you" as xin rises to the heavens and ascends to the position of great general; piao and ji aga might be dead, but to xin and kan saro, their spirit will always be with them regardless. they are one body and soul, and they can't be separated.

depression :')

[hungrytravellers]

Stage Three: Lake Nakuru to Amboseli

[music-in-my-veins14]

Hold me Whatever lies beyond this morning Is a little later on Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all Nothing's like before

[thetepes]

Let's begin. Lily's anti-asian rhetoric is primarily centered around anime! Yes!

She's a cartoon reviewer, supposedly, but one could hardly really say that as after religiously digging through her backwash catalog there's not really much in the way of review or critique.

The more accurate name is Ranttuber. She rants. She will start at point A then rant about something D through G then comes back to A where she suddenly cuts to point Z and the video is over. Usually not even tangentially connected to what she's watching... let's be honest, it's about Steven Universe, Utena, Kingdon Hearts, Korra, or She-Ra. In every video there is a cut to one of these that just has nothing to do with what's either on screen or being talked about making her videos jarring and difficult to follow.

Unfortunately, when you do snort enough Adderall to keep up you start to notice patterns. And one of those patterns is her deep frothing hatred for anime and anyone who even shallowly enjoys it.

Which when you really focus on leads down some pretty dark paths. Her complete disregard for Japanese language and culture that seeps deep into seeing the Japanese as nothing, but an island of rapist pedophiles with nothing to offer the world, but...

Kingdom Hearts?

[inatungulates]

Southern warthog Phacochoerus africanus sundevallii

Observed by simben, CC BY-NC-ND

Warthogs Phacochoerus spp. are very unusual pigs, and a lot of their strangeness is related to their specialist diet - they are almost exclusively grass-eaters. They graze on grass most of the year, eat grass seed at the end of the rainy season, and during the driest times of year, it is the rhizomes of grass - not tubers or bulbs- that they dig up with their especially-stiffened nasal discs. Apart from the occasional small animal or bit of carrion - typical meaty supplements in the diets of herbivores - grass is essentially their only food; they will even eat partially-digested grass from the stomach and intestines of other grazers killed by predators.

The posture taken by the adult warthog in the foreground of this photo is the typical grazing position of warthogs, another unique feature of their grass-eating lifestyle. Their wrist joints are reinforced with toughened pads so they can "kneel" like this and feed on short grass. This behavior is not seen in other pigs; a captive bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus raised with warthogs "was occasionally seen to kneel in the same manner [...] but once in this position it was clearly perplexed about what to do next and neither rooted nor grazed and soon stood up."

The quote, and much of the information above, is referenced from:

Cumming, DHM. 2013. Phacochoerus africanus Common Warthog. pp. 54-60 in J Kingdon and M Hoffmann (eds.), Mammals of Africa Volume VI: Hippopotamuses, Pigs, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer and Bovids. Bloomsbury.

On that note, I'll take a second to plug the book. If you have the ability to acquire a copy (physical, or, like me, scrounged-up PDF) of Mammals of Africa, do it. It's a six-volume set covering all known non-cetacean mammals of mainland Africa at the time of writing. It is an invaluable reference packed with extremely-thorough observations and field data, and in addition to being a great reference tool filled with Kingdon's beautiful and vivacious illustrations, I find the articles in it to be a very pleasant, fascinating read.

[pinksilvace]

what is this funny circus thing you keep posting about. it has captivated me

RUBS MY HANDS TOGETHER IN A VERY EXCITED MANNER LIKE A FLY WHO HAS DISCOVERED STRAWBERRIES

Cirque du Soleil ("circus of the sun") is a Montreal-based company that's been producing animal-less circus shows since 1984 (you may recall a joke about this from Madagascar 3 lol). Most follow a very basic plot of "[character] gets isekai'd for approximately 1h38m then goes home" but it's honestly so much more fun to make up stories one one's own imho. They're also usually composed in Grommelot, an invented language that's usually a mix of multiple languages and gibberish - i.e., it's not supposed to be understood.

A little-known fact about me is that I grew up watching recordings of these shows (because ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE HAS A PROSHOT 🙏) and love them to bits. I've seen Alegria (pre-revival), Kooza, and Kurios live as well.

The official CdS youtube channel has been uploading tons of compilations since 2020. This year, to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary, they've also been releasing a bunch of abridged versions of their shows, which you can view on youtube here.

I'm going to yammer on about my 3 favorites under the cut now :))))

1: Varekai

oghhghgh my gosh I love this show. so much. absolutely devastated it's not touring anymore :(. If they ever bring it back then I NEED to see it. You understand

This has one of the more plotty premises: rather than falling to the sea and dying, it begins with Icarus falling into a strange land and healing through the power of... love? Communal support? It doesn't really matter because the MUSIC and the STAGING and the COSTUMES oh my GOD the COSTUMES. It's such a bright and fun time with good vibes all around and I cannot recommend it enough. Bonus for Greek mythology references. Did I mention the COSTUMES

2: Quidam (2 and 3 are interchangeable for me, depends on my mood)

CdS claims that this show isn't about much. This is a lie. I could write SO MANY ESSAYS on the symbolism in Quidam and all the different interpretations people have about it. Its soundtrack is also an absolute banger that I love listening to on my own time.

The only thing to be aware of before going into Quidam is that it's a bit of a downer. I think it's the most somber of any CdS show I know of.

3: Alegria (original)

Possibly the most well-known CdS show. No joke, I think I've been watching this proshot for my entire life. I think I saw this proshot before I ever saw a cartoon.

Another great soundtrack - I like the original 1994 recording the best. Francesca Gagnon is ICONIC as the singer in white.

This is one of the few non-isekai shows out there; it depicts a kingdon that has just lost its king and shows a brewing tension between the "old birds" in the aristocracy and the young upstarts who hope for structural change.

Mystère may have been the show that solidified the CdS format, but Alegria is so ridiculously well-known and unforgettable that it's always struck me as the cirque show. It makes for a great entry point.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Hey, what is your thought about we slowly overwrite western judgement on arabs and Palestinian as Terrorist, into us saying that France is Terrorist Lover country for funding Israel, United Kingdon into Queen/Mother of Terrorist, and United States into United Terrorist? It fits them better. We have to turn their propaganda into the most degrading and embaraasing boomerang.

I want these countries to lose their attractiveness, good images, trust, and any good propaganda that they make to their name.

I appreciate that you think I'm in any way qualified to answer this.

Because I'm definitely not.

What I will say is that I am all for it.

Because the glamour and supposed prestige western countries exhibit is something we need to be critical off.

Because it's allowed them to get this far exploiting people both past and present.

They frame Arabs as violent as savage when they are the ones being slaughtered and tortured.

Whole countries and nations have been systematically uprooted and changed forever.

And those affects are still felt today.

In Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc.

All things that were started by and than escalated by these western countries who have than reaped the benefits.

What we've learned from the way media is covering Palestine, is that the language we use is so important.

And using that language properly, well it's the least we can do.

And we should do, those like the UK and the US have blood on their hands from this and so many other conflicts worldwide.

They are able to do shit like veto a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in a genocide.

Of destabilising and assassinating world leaders in countries they don't want to succeed.

And if their own laws won't hold them accountable, we should.

But while we do that, it's important we share other cultures, share narratives and stories and art and food from all other the world.

And embrace them.

White supremacist ideology can't be upheld if there's no idealised view of whiteness.

That these countries desperately cling on to.

... I dunno if I answered this right I am very much sleep deprived and have provably gone off on a tangent.

But yes I agree.

We can't forget this, what they've done and continue to do elsewhere.

We will not forget this.

And we will mock them mercilessly for it.

And I say all this as a Pakistani born and raised in the UK.

People are walking down the streets in protest shouting Rishi Sunak is a twat and a wasteman.

I am all for this.

And using their own words against them? Oh they'll hate that.

Never let them forget they are the animals here.

That they always have been.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves, without being propped up by 'acts of faith,' the clamour of paid advocates, or the suppression of contrary evidence." -- William Kingdon Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief"

[curufiin]

@nighttimepatrons @wanderingarcherviola

OK SO you two commented so i will tag you.

TLDR: Calantar is my cute and silly and awful Curufin/Sauron fanchild who is just as terrible as his dads, and i plan to have him feature in my ringmaker curufin long fic (assuming i ever even finish chapter one lmfaooo)

He was born about maybe a year after Finrod’s death, after Celebrimbor for whatever reason leaves Nargothrond for Doriath since Curufin won’t be banished just yet. and because he emotionally cannot handle not being a dad, he decides to turn to Annatar, whose identity he is now well aware of and whose power he’s equally aware of. But here’s one issue! They’re both guys. How are they going to have a kid?

After a lot of pacing around and think emoji’ing and probably bad influences from Annatar, Curufin decides that Clearly, the best way of having a child is to Literally split his fëa and then inbue a piece of it into flesh. Let’s just say that’s a terrible idea and Curufin will be paying for it later. But here’s the other problem: he doesn’t just want Any flesh for his perfect son, oh no no. he has to be SPECIAL. So Annatar chops off his own finger (dw he can still regenerate it at this point) to bond the piece of fëa to, and after a Lot of bad magic and possible necromancy, Calantar is born! In a cloud of glitter and rainbows obviously.

His birth name is Laurinquar Curufinwion which is LITERAL HELL to Sindarize. And he looks like a typical baby at first, minus the cute little orange streak he inherited from “Annatar”. But since he does have Maia blood, he does get some nifty powers: in this case light manipulation, which is where the name Calantar (lord of light/bringer of light) comes from, and he has a limited shapeshifting ability (he can shapeshift but only into different elven forms. no animals, RIP). Also his sindarin name would be Calador (light lord) and I think it’s cute

He’s like. An Interesting Person let’s just say. He is like the insane familial loyalty of Curufin combined with the self serving manipulative and self righteous part Sauron combined, so he is literally incapable of ever admitting his parents are bad people because he thinks they’re not! They’re great! You’re wrong and he will kill you for saying otherwise!

He doesn’t do much in the first or second age since y’know. Baby. And also daddy is off to usurp a kingdon brb, but in the third age he’s tasked to return the ring to dad at all costs. I’m sure he’s had some fun interactions with Celebrimbor

[octospace]

I'm in my fourth rewatch of ATLA and remembering the first one almost 15 years ago and it's funny how my feelings towards it remain the same "It is perfect as it is, doesn't need a live-action or any other adaptation".

It's exhausting how animation is always treated as something incomplete, that needs a "real" adaptation to be complete and reach a larger audience. Avatar: The Last Airbender is the perfect example of something so complete and that works so well it makes any other adaptation not worth it.

My favorite thing about ATLA is how naive it is, how it handles things so innocently that if you think about it too much it's more unreal than human airbending, earthbeding or firebeding. A master would never train Sokka just because... reasons. Zuko would never beat Azula and probably would never be a good leader as he was fooled by pretty much every character on that show, Katara is amazing but a year of training would never make her beat trained guards from the Earth Kingdon Royal Palace, and Toph, well she would be amazing anyway.

But the point in all of this is: IT DOESN'T MATTER, for ATLA to work it doesn't matter if friendship and love will be the reason all the trained bad guys will lose the war fine! If found your people, your family, your identity, and travel the world to learn things by doing it will make you beat all the challenges ahead of you perfect! In the end it is a fantasy about fighting for what you believe and finding out who you are and who you wannabe along the way. That said, ATLA doesn't need a live action.

ps.: Azula would also be amazing anyway!

[fictionkinfessions]

grabbing myself by the fucking shoulders and digging my fingers in like that one reaction image. the mario movie reactivated a long-forgotten part of my brain (childhood memories wherein i [poorly] tried to come up with a Actual Serious diplomatic map of the smb world and its kingdons and at one point got really invested abt if yoshis are animal smart or people smart and if they had their own kingdom/society in that piecemealed-from-games-i-liked worldbuild and. inhales. i forgot nearly all of it but i remember it consumed my whole focus for a good hot minute back then. and i remembered it and i can feel my brain itching like i MUST try it again)

tldr im going to be soooo pissed if this movie awakened anything in me kinwise. not because of the movie being what it is, if you like it all the power to you bc i did gind it enjoyable, but there is just a hint visceral rage in the back of my mind if it turns out a fucking. goofy little movie is somehow what does it. — 🐊/scaleanon

[princetonuniversitypress]

Every living being has origins. Yes, plural, because living organisms adapt and change over time. Along the way, they also shift and colonize new ground, new islands, new continents, new waters, new oceans—always adapting to ever-renewed, ever-transformed conditions. The living beings that call themselves “human” also have plural origins because their ancestral stocks have made several significant safaris and intercontinental exchanges between Africa and Eurasia. The timing, the extent, and the nature of these exchanges, these comings and goings, are still imperfectly understood. Nonetheless, it is clear that humanity’s prehistory is predominantly African. Yet to assert that human ancestors have been predominantly African for the last ten million years flies in the face of most people’s assumptions. The very idea that everywhere that is not Africa is territory colonized by Africans inverts the bland assumptions of many, perhaps most, of our contemporaries. 

The emergence of modern humans is an extremely complex and still imperfectly understood story, spanning some one million years. Compared to most other organisms, we are novices on this planet. As for our invention and development of science, especially evolutionary biology and ecology, these disciplines span but four or five generations! Despite our biological novelty and still newer invention of science, we find, embedded in our genes, entombed in African soils, and manifest in an ecology of unequalled complexity and diversity, the grand theater of human origins, newly informed by the extraordinary science of genetics. The molecules of genes, themselves coded messages, offer us new grammars, a new syntax that is embedded in all living beings. It is a language that was decoded while I was in my teens by men I have met. The modern science of biology came into being during my grandfather’s lifetime with the publication of a book entitled “On the Origin of Species.” I and all my readers belong to just one of the species to which Charles Darwin referred. For the human species, origin means Africa. 

These languages and their messages are new. Yet the lessons we must learn require a complete reframing of knowledge itself. Knowingly or not, we have entered an age of learning in which everyone’s lifelong commitment to ever-expanding knowledge has become the defining quest of contemporary culture. Furthermore, we must act on this always imperfect but always growing knowledge, not only for ourselves but for our children’s children. Defiant, willful ignorance threatened civilization twice in the last century, while new disciplines of thought predict that all organisms, including us, will soon suffer unimaginable consequences from today’s feckless industries and still worse politics. 

The wide Boreal Africa lies north of the equator, while the long, slimmer eastern half of Africa stretches way down south. Here are two continent-spanning archipelagos separated by a snake of aridity that, to my great surprise, has acquired a biogeographic title—the Kingdon Line. Each of these two divisions sub-divides further into island-like compartments. Together with a pendulum of climatic swings, these “islands” have mediated the evolution of many species of animals and plants. A large part of the world’s biodiversity has evolved in Africa, where a great number of plants and animals, especially large mammals, still survive, albeit precariously. I have written and illustrated field guides and handbooks that feature inclusive lists of the continent’s mammals. Reacting against just one more list, I turn to my senses for a less categorical appreciation of nature’s diversity. 

The sound of biodiversity is the song of every bird, the sonic boom of every whale, the vibration of every insect, feather, or vocal chord that ever evolved, the sound of every coming and of every going. 

The smell of biodiversity wafts from every flower, every gland, and, yes, every female mammal as she comes into season and the scent of her newborn baby. It is also the miasma of every corpse and the potential punishment stored in every skunk’s or zorilla’s anus. The shape of biodiversity is manifest in the architecture of a giraffe or the empires of underground tree roots, in the geometry of diatoms and the symmetry of spiders, deep-sea fish, and peacocks’ tails. The color of biodiversity flashes from the sides of every courting bird or flirting female, from the petals of every plant, and from the changing tints of chameleons as they ponder their next moves.

Living beings have untangled and reassembled light itself. Sunbirds, frenetic at midday, throw back restructured reflections of sunlight in all manner of ostentatious feathering. Moonlight off the metallic tips of bronze-winged courser wings divert gnu and topi traffic around the birds’ precious clutch of eggs as surely as a cop’s illuminated batons at a midnight roadblock. The same feather tips can flutter in the nose of a foraging jackal to distract from newly hatched chicks as they crouch in the burnt stubble. 

To return to the giant Boreal/Austral bisection of Africa, here lie clues to the very earliest emergence of the bipedal lineage that led to us. The last ancestor shared by today’s humans and today’s chimpanzees probably ranged over the tropics of both archipelagos some eight or nine million years ago. The Austral population became ground apes that eventually generated several lineages of bipeds, one of which became us. 

The fount of our intellect, our creativity, our curiosity, our capacity for inspiration, even our sense of humor and rhythm arose in Africa, probably before we became sapient. All need cultivation. Integral to that end, we must acknowledge our mother continent’s nurture of our species and make the continent what it has always been: nursery, school, and university of human origins. In our children’s hands, armed with an ever-expanding knowledge that can be tested for its truthfulness, Africa becomes the true primary source of our natural history, our origins—the ultimate setting for future universities of creative thinking, creative making, and creative living. 

Jonathan Kingdon is an award-winning evolutionary biologist and artist, and a research associate at the University of Oxford. His many books include Lowly Origin: Why, When, and Where Our Ancestors First Stood Up and The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (both Princeton).

[animeeveryday]

Are you ready for the latest installment in the Kingdom franchise? The upcoming premiere of Kingdom: Unmei no Honoo, the sequel to the manga and anime series, will thrill fans. Directed by Shinsuke Satou, this highly anticipated movie, Kingdon Live Action, promises to be just as action-packed and thrilling as its predecessors. Here is everything about the new trailer that has made its way to the internet recently!Based on the popular Kingdom manga and anime series, Kingdom: Unmei no Honoo follows the story of an orphaned peasant boy who becomes a key general in the Qin army, fighting to unite China. This time, we’ll see the forces of Zhao and Qin clash again, with Shin leading his 100 men into battle. The new trailer and visual release have fans eagerly anticipating the latest chapter in the Kingdom franchise. Keep reading further to know what comes out in this new Live-Action Movie.Kingdom Live Action: Announcement & Trailer!Recently, the production team of Kingdom: Unmei no Honoo released a second trailer, giving fans a glimpse of what they can expect from the movie. The trailer features intense battle scenes, showcasing the impressive martial arts choreography that the Kingdom franchise is known for. In addition, the trailer gives us a closer look at the main characters, including Shin, Ou Ki, and Eisei.The production team also revealed that Yuuki Yamada, Ainosuke Kataoka, and Kouji Yamamoto would be joining the cast as Mangoku, Fuu Ki, and Chou Sou, respectively. This exciting announcement has generated a lot of buzz among fans, who are eagerly anticipating the release of the movie.Plot Details!Kingdom follows the story of Xin, a war orphan who dreams of becoming the greatest general under the heavens. Along with his comrades, Xin fights to unify China for the first time in 500 years during the Warring States period. The film will feature the Shi Ka arc and Battle of Bayou from the manga.The plot of the movie will delve deeper into the themes of power, sacrifice, and the cost of war. Xin and his friends will face new challenges as they try to unite the seven powerful states that have emerged from the endless cycle of warfare. The film promises to be an emotional rollercoaster as it delves into the complexities of human nature and ambition.Credits: CrunchyrollKingdom Live Action: Release DateKingdom Live Action: Flames of Destiny is set to release in Japanese theaters on July 28, 2023. Fans of the popular manga series can mark their calendars for this highly anticipated event. The story promises to be bigger and more dramatic than the previous installments. With the success of the first two films and the manga’s large following, Kingdom Live Action: Flames of Destiny is sure to be a hit among fans of the series. At last, keep an eye on The Anime Daily to get all updates on this right here.

[kanekooll]

Another Kairi art which was for experimenting poses.

[nebulousflower]

"Is this what it means to face your demons?" 🖤🌊

Cosplayer: @nebulousflower

[fanofmickey]

Clouds Over the Mountain by Mark Walter